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Title "Arts and Social Change" on top left; time and location of event below the title: "Wednesday, May 18, 6-8 PM At Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos Community College"; panelist names below the event location: "with Ana "Rokafella" Garcia and Laura Alvarez" below; on top right, Bronx Council on the Arts and PEN America logos; below the logos, moderator Alejandro Heredia's headshot next to words "Moderated by Alejandro Heredia"; below Alejandro's headshot, headshot of panelists Ana "Rokafella" Garcia and Laura Alvarez; at the bottom, words "NYC Literary Action Coalition" in red rectangle

Arts and Social Change

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In his latest dispatch, Bronx Writers Center Director Charlie Vázquez shares more about the Bronx Memoir Project, as well as literary and artistic events in NYC's northernmost borough. More

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In the first blog of a series, Bronx Writers Center Director Charlie Vázquez shares about the literary and arts events happening in his local community. More

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